2000s Flashcards
John Penney wrote, directed, and produced this 2006 alphabetically challenged thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl. The film grossed $30 in its first week, making it the lowest-grossing movie ever in the U.S. at the time, according to Variety.
Zyzyx Road
Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote, “A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as,” this 2000 box office bomb based on a 1982 sci-fi novel of the same name.
Battlefield Earth
Described by one critic as “a checklist shaped by a 15-year-old mallrat: thrashing metal track, skateboards, motorbikes, cracked heads and Rebecca Romijn with her top off,” this 2002 sci-fi remake did not live up to the success of its original 1975 production.
Rollerball
After his death, Gerard Butler’s love letters sent to Hilary Swank end with this afterthought, the movie’s title.
P.S. I Love You
In 2005 he lost for Best Actor but won for directing, at 74 becoming the oldest winner ever in that category.
Clint Eastwood
Identify the film this till is taken from. A co-production between two studios, for one of them it was the first to make no use of stop motion animation.
Flushed Away
Though this question would be more topical if it had been asked exactly four weeks ago, please provide the exact answer that is correctly given to this tiebreak question.
The limit does not exist
In 2002 this film won the first Best Animated Feature Oscar.
Shrek
“In the aftermath of nuclear attacks in Texas, America found itself on the brink of anarchy.” El Paso and Abilene are destroyed by terrorist groundbursts. Results include The Rock dancing with Mandy Moore and Sarah Michelle Gellar in a megazeppelin, and Justin Timberlake performing a full revue (with kickline) to the Killers. Name either the 2006 film OR its director; it was his second effort, following 2001’s Donnie Darko.
Southland Tales, Richard Kelly
This character became the first black Disney princess in 2009’s “The Princess & The Frog”.
Tiana
The plot of what Iraq War satire, a film spinoff of the BBC TV series The Thick of It, is set in motion when Simon Foster, the fictional UK Minister for International Development, refers to war as being unforeseeable?
In The Loop
A wave of critically and commercially successful Mexican directors arrived in Hollywood in the 2000s; so did J. K. Rowling and the eight-film Harry Potter series. Exactly which Harry Potter film did Alfonso Cuarón direct?
The Prisoner of Azkhaban
Foreign-language films and performances have been nominated for every major Academy Awards category, and thanks to Parasite every major category has at least one foreign-language winner.
One 2002/2003 film, with nominations for Director, Cinematography, Editing, and Adapted Screenplay, was the first South American foreign-language film nominated in each of those categories, despite a mostly-amateur cast (only one of whom went on to Hollywood success). Name the film.
City of God
To portray the character of David, one 13-year-old actor avoided blinking his eyes and emulated nearly perfect posture. To prepare for the role of Gigolo Joe, a 29-year-old performer studied the acting of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, whose movements Joe emulated. These preparations were made in order to take on the lead roles in what 2001 film?
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Starring a then 17-year-old sitcom star, what 2002 comedy film’s plot is an allusion to the Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, with the 14-year-old slacker Jason Shepherd being analogous to the shepherd boy in the story and the arrogant Hollywood producer Marty Wolf, analogous to the wolf?
Big Fat Liar
Barad-dûr and Orthanc are names that could plausibly be the titular pair in what 2002 blockbuster film?
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz play two strangers who get married and hit a casino jackpot during a drunken night in this 2008 romantic comedy.
What Happens in Vegas
This 2008 Disney film stars John Travolta as the voice of a heroic White Swiss Shepherd
Bolt
